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Would someone tell us what is the root of the ammo shortage? I've heard penty of opinions, but not the reason why or what's going on. I try to take friends, new shooters to the range to practice for their CCW "range" strings of fire, but it has brought me to a stand-still due to lack of 22 LR and 9mm availability at stores here (San Antonio, TX). I am told to camp by the store to await the delivery of ammo on set days,, but I have to ask, "What's going on?" I heard the government (since it can't ban certain firearms) is now drying out the ammo from the citizens. Without ammo, firearms are worthless. I heard that we should read chapter 21 of the UN Charter,, limiting and disarming America (especially). I heard also, that the US will bust due to hyperinflation (making money without having the gold to back it up) and will become caotic, experience food shortages ....just like the ammo shortage now. Can't even imagine what that would be like, particularly in major cities like here! Prepies,, are they on to something? Without a national firearms registration...is this another way the government will find what you type of firearm you have by means of back-tracking credit card ammo purchases "back to you?" Let US KNOW, TELL US!

A basic understanding of supply and demand is really all you need to understand the 'root' of the shortage. There's no conspiracy and if enough people decided that they needed to buy up every pair of boots they saw, we'd have a boot shortage of similar proportions.

I am not sure of the exact cause, but around here I live, for an example at one large sporting goods store, people know when the truck is coming in with the ammo.They get to the store early and the line goes all the way back out the front door. This stuff is gone before it even hits the shelves, they buy it right off the truck. Panic buying, maybe. Ammo companies deliberately holding back to inflate the prices, maybe, they are making the stuff to make money.The DHS is buying a bunch, creating part of the problem.My best guess is that it is a combinatiopn of all of these and more, the perfect storm kind of thing.

According to VP Joe it's the Black Helicopter crowd , all you need is a Double Barrel shotgun anyway .

Seriously it's more demand than supply, hoarding, and a big dose of GREED ! The ammo manufactures are going full speed ! It was a huge run after Sandy Hook and the threat of all the bans by Barry and his Friends . People freaked out and purchased obscene amounts of ammo .

1. The Gesta--I mean DHS--did buy a whole bunch. One point six billion hollow-point rounds, if I remember correctly. That's a lot of ammunition that's off the market.
2. With the gun/"assault weapon" bans being tossed around, citizens are realizing that they're not as well-armed as they would want to be in such a ban--thus they buy more.
2a. (<--no pun intended) As a corollory, temporary shortages develop and prices rise. Those who weren't panic-buying because of legislation realized that they may not be able to get affordable ammunition in the near future, so they buy more too.
3. It is entirely possible that the government is buying all the ammunition off the market. It's not likely, but possible. Anyone remember Animal Farm, where Napoleon was taking some of the food to feed his dog army out of sight, only to release it upon his subjects at the right moment? Again, not the most likely cause, but one I wouldn't dismiss out of hand.

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The simply answers is the idiots of the firearms world created it by panic buying for fear of ammunition being banned or background checked on buy it. There was no real impact on ammunition from what the government/law enforcement was/is purchasing. They idiots have now created a monster since the ammunition manufacturers are saying it will take 1-2 years to catch up.........

It also doesn't help when you've got people doing everything to get around purchase limits at stores to buy as much of the ammo that is still priced well like at wal-mart, then flipping it on gunbroker for profit.

The simply answers is the idiots of the firearms world created it by panic buying for fear of ammunition being banned or background checked on buy it. There was no real impact on ammunition from what the government/law enforcement was/is purchasing. They idiots have now created a monster since the ammunition manufacturers are saying it will take 1-2 years to catch up.........

I don't see them as idiots but only as people caught flat-footed without ammunition, having only recently acquired the sudden realization that it was extremely important in their minds to have an ammunition supply laid in for a rainy day. This is that rainy day. So we see threads such as this one springing up on firearms forums. Many times they are bemoaning the naked greed they feel they are witnessing, all while they exhibit an equal measure of naked envy over what someone else either has had the foresight to lay up or the perseverance to hunt around for the ammunition and pay the high prices in order to acquire.